Re: [Usability] user levels, etc.

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 22:05, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 01:01, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 21:53, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 00:43, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > > > as we figure out what is actually
> > > > necessary.
> > > 
> > > *cough*palm configuration*cough*
> > 
> > What do you need to configure? Why can't your system just find the
> > bloody palm and sychronize? The existing palm configuration is pretty
> > complicated, and the conduits system isn't a very good thing to expose
> > to users. I wouldn't mind a simple interface for selecting what things
> > get synched "Adressbook" "Notes" etc. But the existing interface is
> > pretty crack laden at times.
> 
> So what you're saying is because the palm backend is a PITA, we should
> just make the palm device completely unusable? Because that's the
> current situation- every palm and GNOME user who has 'upgraded' to the
> new CC has rudely discovered that we don't care whether or not they can
> use their hardware.

yes. Because the current CC isn't ready for mainstream use (IMO)... I'm
suprised Ximian is shipping it already. but in terms of an engineering
process approach, removing the applets gives people incentive to fix
them the RightWay(TM).

-Seth